Psychological interventions for emotional well-being in adults with advanced progressive life-limiting illness.

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To determine the benefits and harms of psychological interventions compared to treatment as usual, waiting list, active control, or another psychological intervention to improve emotional well-being in adults with an advanced progressive life-limiting illness.

An unusual case of malignant thymoma associated graft-versus-host disease.

A woman in her early 50s presented with recurrent severe chest infections. Investigations revealed a low white cell count and a diagnosis of autoimmune neutropenia was made. Subsequently, an infiltrating thymic tumour (mitoses only) in the absence of myasthenia gravis was found.